Ruth Reynold's Six Sweet Bird Drawings fences with really no paint loss

with really no paint loss

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) Surely inspiration and/or material for all sorts of creative endeavors

and think she looks a bit like a mermaid with that split tail at the end—and definitely she resembles a figurehead on a ship when cocked to face front

perhaps she mourns a young husband lost at sea

Ruth Reynold's Six Sweet Bird Drawings fences with really no paint lossI found a whole folio of sweet graphite drawings by young Ruth Reynolds of Lancaster County PA depicting a variety of animals, her birds I think my favorites among them, which I'm listing here as a set. (This is all of them.) Done in school I presume graphite on lined paper and what a good thing I think for kids to learn their birds in detail, cultivating future bird watchers and lovers! I'm forever a sucker for drawings of birds, the more naive and